The authorities of private universities have to pay a Tk 1-3 crore illegally to quarters in the Ministry of Education and the University Grants Commission (UGC) for getting the approval to set up and operate a university, according to a study by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB)…

The motor vehicle strike called by the Rangpur Motor Workers Union on June 30 is withdrawn following an assurance by the prime minister’s office that an alleged police attack on transport workers would be investigated…

The government on Monday signed a loan agreement with the World Bank under which the lending agency will provide $78.4 million additional financing to further scale-up its support for the successful solar home systems (SHS) program…

A group of employees and union leaders of the national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines confined Biman’s acting managing director to his office at Balaka on Monday to press home their 14-point demands.

Iraqi troops battled to dislodge an al Qaeda splinter group from the city of Tikrit Monday after its leader was declared caliph of a new Islamic state in lands seized this month across a swathe of Iraq and Syria…

The customs intelligence authorities on Monday seized a haul of illegal cigarettes and medicines worth Tk 50 lakh that was left unattended at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, customs officials said.

Costa Rica secured a place in the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time on Sunday after beating Greece 5-3 on penalties after the teams finished level at 1-1 after extra time, the Central Americans playing for almost an hour with 10 men. Costa Rica keeper Keylor Navas dived to superbly save Theofanis Gekas’s fourth penalty for the Greeks, leaving […]

The Netherlands scored twice in the dying minutes through Wesley Sneijder and a Klaas Jan Huntelaar penalty to move into the quarter-finals of the World Cup with a 2-1 win over Mexico on Sunday. In a match conditioned by the baking heat and humidity in Fortaleza, Giovani dos Santos looked to have Mexico on the way to their first quarter-final […]